Tongue-support



(No Model.)

A. D. TYLER.

TONGUE SUPPORT. No. 336,605. Patented Feb. 23, 1886.

E V C UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ABEL D. TYLER, OF SOUTH ABINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

TONGUE-SUPPO RT.

QPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 336,605, dated February 23, 1886,

Application filed June 27, I885. Serial No. 169.971. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABEL D. TYLER, of South Abington, in the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shaft- Supporters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention consists of a device attached to an axle-tree ofa carriage or buggy, &c.. so that the shafts, when raised or swung up on their pivotal connection on the axle-tree, will be held and supported in such raised position, all substantially as hereinafter fully de scribed.

In the accompanying plate of drawings is illustrated the present invention as applied to an axle-tree and its shaft, Figures 1 and 2 representing in detail one of the shafts of a buggy, &c., attached to its aX1e-tree,having the present invention attached thereto, Fig. 1 being in side elevation, and Fig. 2 aplan view; Fig. 3, a view in detail similar to Fig. 1, showing a modification, and Figs. 4: and 5 detail views to be hereinafter referred to.

In the drawings, A represents a portion of an axle-tree to a buggy or other carriage; B, one of the shafts attached to it by the thillcoupling O,swinging on its pivot D,all as usual in carriages, &c., and needing no particular description herein.

E is an arm bent in circular form, as shown, and having a right-angular portion, F, by which it is secured to the axle-tree A in such manner that the curved portion G will extend up behind and then over the top of the axletree toward the shaft, as shown in Fig. 1 more particularly.

H is a strap,of iron or of any suitable material, bent so as to fit over the axle-tree, as shown, its two ends, a, havinga screw-thread, b, out thereon, and passing through holes J in the angular portion F of the arm E, and each receiving a screw-nut, K, the screwing up of which secures the arm E rigidly to the axletree, all as shown more particularly in Fig. 1. On one side, d, of the arm E is a series of grooves or hollows, L, running in lines across the arm E, and substantially radial to the center D, on which the shaft swings. On the side f of the shaft B is a projection, M, round in cross-section and adapted to fitin the grooves L on the arm E, and in the present instance made of a staple form and driven by its legs 9 into the side of the shaft. As the shaft is swung up on its pivot D the projection M will project into and bear in one or the other ofthe grooves Lin the arm E,according to the height to which the shaft is swung up, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, whereby the shaft will be held in such position until removed by the person. The arm E is preferably made of springsteel, and is so set on the axle-tree in relation to the line of movement of the side d of the shaft that when the shaft is swung up the arm will bear against the shaft with its spring-power, insuring the hold of the groove on the projection M, and thus hold the shaft in its upright position. As the outer groove, h, of the arm E is so situated that it will hold the sh aft when nearestits usual horizontal position, therefore requiring a firmer hold of the armE on the shaft, the point or ridge Z in front of said groove h projects farther forward than the other ridges, m, as shown in Fig. 2, by which such hold is maintained to a certainty. I

In Fig. 3 is shown a modification of the grooves L, the arm E having holes or depressions n in its side, into which,when the shaft is raised,will project a pin, 1), on the sidedofthe shaft.

In Fig. 4is shown the arm E in side view, but as not having any grooves L or depressions n, its surface on such side being smooth, and in such case the shaft will be held in its raised position by the friction of the arm on the side of the shaft, exerted by the spring of the arm.

In Fig. 5is shown in detail the arm E, hav ing a long groove or depression, N, in which the shaft itself is disposed when raised to the right position, the spring power of the arm holding the shaft up, as before.

A device constructed as described and shown attached to an axle-tree and operating in con The end of the arm E is beveled, as at q, to with a projection, M, substantially as and for 10 facilitate the shaft passing by the same when the purpose specified.

raised.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set Having thus described my invention, what my hand in the presence of two subscribing 5 I claim is- In combination with an axle-tree of a buggy or carriage, 850., a spring-arm secured to the axle-tree, having a series of grooves, L, and a shaft hinged to said axle-tree and provided witnesses.

ABEL D. TYLER. \Vitnesses:

EDWIN W. BROWN,

WM. F. BELLOWS. 

